Welcome to ELSPA

The UK Interactive Entertainment Association operating as ELSPA is the UK’s leading videogames trade body. The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) includes almost all major companies involved with the publishing and development of videogames in this country.

Founded in 1989, ELSPA works to comprehensively protect, promote and provide for its members. It oversees the country’s retail sales charts and it works with government and government departments on everything from age rating regulations to incentives that can help ensure the UK remains a major force in the global videogames industry. ELSPA also promotes career advice and opportunities to attract a suitably well-qualified workforce that is essential for the industry to remain relevant and vital.

ELSPA rigorously defends the Intellectual Property rights of its members via its Intellectual Property Crime Unit (IPCU), which works with police forces and trading standards departments around the country to investigate and prosecute those involved with selling or installing circumvention devices, console ‘chipping’, copied videogames and more.

Additionally, the association is heavily involved in promoting safe, healthy videogaming for all comers and offers sound advice for players, parents and guardians at our sister website, www.askaboutgames.com. Our ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility programme includes partnerships with a number of the UK’s leading charities and youth organisations.